We’re lucky to have such inspiring academics at ASC. We’re excited to spotlight just a few new additions which have been serving to our college students develop. Meet our instructors, Sarah Tolan-Mee, Joshua Moaney, and Sara Mountjoy-Pepka!
Sarah Tolan-Mee is an actor and director from NYC. She guides actors and inventive artists, together with Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and PEN award winners, in expressive embodiment. She is a protege of the good motion trainer Moni Yakim and holds an MFA from Juilliard in Drama. Appearing consists of: Martyna Majok’s queens (LCT3), Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play (13P) and Stage Kiss (The Goodman). Moreover, New Saloon’s Minor Character (Beneath the Radar), and Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Components (FRANK). Additionally together with Lucy Thurber’s Named (Rising Phoenix Rep), Kenneth Prestininzi’s Love within the Seventh Kingdom of Wrath (Dream Up Pageant) and Chaste (Entice Door), Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (Andre Gregory). She has developed work with Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, P73, The Roundabout, The Winery, The Lark, Main Levels, Denver Heart, and The Playwright’s Heart.
What’s your favourite a part of educating?
My favourite a part of educating is watching college students’ radically totally different processes, and seeing them come alive via exploration of approach. The phrases “approach,” “craft” or “talent” can sound overly mechanical, however I’ve discovered the alternative. Good approach frees an actor, opens her creativeness, and creates an immediacy in her work. It’s breathtaking to witness actors actually experiment and to be in a room filled with people who find themselves keen to make the leap into inventive course of. I like witnessing the magic of transformation and the residing laboratory nature of the classroom. I want extra rehearsal rooms included the daring of an ASC class.
Why ASC?
I like ASC’s combine of heat, rigor, and dedication to truthful, expansive appearing.
BONUS: In case you weren’t an actor (or a trainer), what would you be?
If I weren’t an actor I’d be a physicist. The drama of area and time!!!
Joshua Moaney is a Chicago-based actor and trainer. He graduated together with his MFA from The Theatre College at DePaul College in 2013. Moaney’s stage credit embrace theaters resembling Remy Bumppo, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Lifeline Theatre, the place he’s additionally a educating artist.
Concurrently, Moaney works with The Lyric Opera of Chicago. His most up-to-date appearing credit embrace Le Comte Ory, Macbeth, Eranani, and Fireplace Shut Up in My Bones.
On-camera credit embrace Empire (Fox) and Chicago Med (NBC). Josh has additionally been seen in nationwide and regional commercials for manufacturers like Dicks Sporting Items, Goal, Kraft, ComEd, Massive Heaps, Room Place, Ace {Hardware}, and extra.
What’s your favourite a part of educating?
I be taught as a lot from my college students as they do from me. The passion and pleasure they carry to the studio makes educating simple.
Sara Mountjoy-Pepka involves Chicago by way of Los Angeles and Seattle and could be very completely happy to be right here. As an actor, Sara loves all theater however has a specific focus in Shakespeare. Sara has loved working regionally with Nice River Shakespeare Pageant, Seattle Shakespeare/ Wood O, Montana Shakespeare within the Parks, Will Geer’s Theatrical Botanicum, and extra. Knowledgeable improviser, she was an organization member of the award-winning Impro Theatre in LA and Seattle’s Surprising Productions. Every with a particular deal with improvising full-length performs in traditional genres like Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Dorothy Parker. An organization member of Magic Circle Mime Firm, Sara spent 17 years miming throughout North America, Europe and Asia with the world’s finest symphony orchestras. Sara can be a director, together with Impro Theatre/ Garry Marshall Theatre’s smash-hit Jane Austen Unscripted, and 7 sold-out seasons of The Improvised Era (within the model of Star Trek: TNG).
What’s your favourite a part of educating?
I benefit from the journey of determining what every scholar must thrive and shine. Generally, [a student] has a breakthrough their very top notch, and typically, you’re assessing and experimenting collectively for some time till immediately, one thing clicks.
Why ASC?
Simple – I began as a scholar right here and instantly felt this was an excellent group for me. I’ll proceed being a scholar at the same time as I step into educating…I used to be refreshing the grownup courses web page right now!
BONUS: In case you weren’t an actor (or a trainer), what would you be?
A farmer. In one other life, I personal and run a self-sustaining natural farm within the Pacific Northwest with principally crops/ orchards and some completely happy hens. I can not emphasize the hole between the data it could take to succeed at that and the data I at the moment have, however my metropolis interest within the meantime is native plant gardening.
